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vegetative cover. Additional soil improvement could be made by the application of fertilizer according to soil fertility tests and the incorporation of a manure or straw mulch to protect the soil surface from damaging winds during seeding establishment. A nurse crop, where the permanent grasses are planted at the same time as another annual species should be specifically avoided. A cover crop could be seeded a year before. the Permanent vegetation is to be planted, therefore providing a firm, weed-free seedbed for the grasses. If water is available from pumps in the recharge pits, it would help insure the survival and the establishment of the permanent cover. The pit should 6e reseeded late in the fall, WhBn the soil temperature has dropped to a point where the grasses will not germinate until the spring, when the soils warm up naturally. This timing is generally in mid-December, although in some years may be slightly earlier. A grass drill should be used to Plant the grasses, in order that the seeds be placed at the correct depth. If v.:eed control is necessary in the spring before the grass germinates, an application of a contract herbicide (such as paraquat or roundup) will suppress the early weed competition from species such as I;cchia and Russian thrstle. 2,4-D or similar herbicides may be used later in the spring following gerrr~rnatien, although some of the residual compounds have been i::ncwn to stunt the grass growth. ALL CHEMICAL=• WILL BE APPLIED IN ACCUR'DANCE WITH THE PRODUCT LAEEL, AND WILL 6E APPLIED EY EXF'ERIEIJC.ED LICEIJSED F'ESTICIGE AFFLICp,TORS. The rni?:ture of grasses recommended fior the reclaimation of the pit is as follows, according to SCS standards and °~perifrcations for Critical Area Planting: Species ~ Mi:; #/Ac(i0D.4? #!AG(1~1i::? Sideoats grams 70`/ 9#/ac E.`#!a~= Elue grarna 15:M 3#i ac .5#/ac Western ~.+~heatgrass 1~`/, le'~#iac 2.5#/ac The seeding rates shown abo+~e are listed in pure live seed per acre, rather than bu14:: rates Per acre. It is suggested that the rndividuai that is respensib ie for the Purchase of the seed err~p hasrze to the seed suppliar that the seeding re.-cmmendations are by FLS (pure live seed). TY~e seed will have to be purchased in bull:: a;r~ounts, which !+nll vary from the FMS depandrng on the purity and germination of the specific lot rf the sued.